Contemporary, Collaborative, Community Musical Arts Project will present a concert of new music from Ben Van Winkle and the Figment Chamber Ensemble on Friday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at Barking Legs Theater. Tickets are $15.

“Our current project, Ben Van Winkle and the Figment Chamber Ensemble features the highest caliber classical musicians in our area playing the delightful contemporary compositions of Ben Van Winkle,” said Bryony Stroud-Watson, CoMAP artistic director.

Review for Ben Van Winkle and the Figment Chamber Ensemble:

A Chattanooga native, Mr. Van Winkle has performed with the Chattanooga Symphony and as front man of the popular local band, Masseuse. Mr. Van Winkle is a cellist, singer, beat boxer, and composer. In his solo shows he uses looping—recording short sequences on stage and then playing live while these recordings play back—to layer these elements into a uniquely personal sound that ranges from upbeat, feel good music to serene, heartfelt, and moving.

For this show, Mr. Van Winkle has arranged his layered, solo compositions as chamber music for a bespoke chamber ensemble featuring strings, winds, performers with the Chattanooga and Mobile Symphonies and teaching faculty at Cleveland State, Lee University, and UT Knoxville.

"It should be one of the most unusual chamber music events in Chattanooga in some time and one that will leave you wondering if it was all a figment of your imagination!” said Bryony Stroud-Watson.

For more information about Ben Van Winkle and the Figment Chamber Ensemble or to learn more about becoming a part of the collaboration, contact CoMAP artistic director, violinist (and sometimes viola) Bryony Stroud-Watson, CoMAP.chatt@gmail.com.

The Weeks Play Twice At Songbirds Friday And Saturday

December 11, 2018

CSCC Music Department Presents Holiday Concert

Arts at Erlanger invites patients, family members, staff and visitors to performances by Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Youth Orchestra members Melinda and Danielle Jubea on Dec. 18 and Chattanooga ... (click for more)

The Weeks will have a double feature show, Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m., at Songbirds on the South Stage. Tickets are $12-$20 and available here .
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High-energy, Rowdy, ... (click for more)

The Vocal Rhapsody Ensemble of Cleveland State Community College will present a concert celebrating the holiday season on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the George R. Johnson Cultural Heritage Center.
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Arts at Erlanger invites patients, family members, staff and visitors to performances by Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Youth Orchestra members Melinda and Danielle Jubea on Dec. 18 and Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Bassoon Ensemble on Dec. 20 in the Erlanger Medical Mall. Both performances begin at noon.
The Jubea sisters, who are 10 and 13, are already an accomplished violinist ... (click for more)

The Weeks will have a double feature show, Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m., at Songbirds on the South Stage. Tickets are $12-$20 and available here .
Review for The Weeks:
High-energy, Rowdy, Raucous, Longhair Mississippi Glam Rock. That's the sound of Easy, The Week's long follow-up to their breakthrough album, Dear Bo Jackson. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis — a place ... (click for more)

The state on Tuesday morning dismissed all charges against aspiring rapper Charles Toney in connection with his arrest that led to a U.S. Department of Justice probe.
The arrest on Dec. 3 on Donaldson Road was caught on video by a neighbor and went viral. It showed Toney being punched and kicked by an officer while he was handcuffed.
District Attorney Neal Pinkston afterward ... (click for more)

For the 2019-2020 school year, Hamilton County Schools is opening enrollment to a select group of schools, “My Future Schools,” to which students across the district will be eligible to apply. Officials said, "Opening enrollment to these schools will provide students with a diverse range of options outside of their neighborhood zoned school. These schools will be in addition to ... (click for more)

The Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority and County Commissioner Tim Boyd want to build a sewage treatment plant in my backyard. I bought my house in Ooltewah in 1994, raised my children here and worked hard to pay it off. My home has been my small piece of the American Dream. Now, the WWTA and Commissioner Boyd want to reward my hard work by taking away about ... (click for more)

There is a huge shopping mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin -- think of a suburb of Milwaukee -- and about two-to-three miles away from the Mayfair Mall is where the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin is located. The fact the renowned medical center is in the vicinity of the mall is what we call “a salient point,” which are very important when a story is presented that many, many people ... (click for more)